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opulent

'ɒpjulәnt5 senses · 5 ms
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adj/ˈɒpjʊlənt/
  1. 1

    Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent.

    • He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.
  2. 2

    Rich, sumptuous and extravagant.

    • The outdoor setting around the lily ponds in the twin courtyards of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is opulent with maples in radiant hues, and a veritable forest of conifers and bamboo with underplantings like bush-clover, silver grass and
    • For all England was his fief, held in vassalage to God and to no man alive, his heart now sang; allwhither his empire spread, opulent in grain and metal and every revenue of the earth, and in stalwart men (his chattels), and in strong order

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